Local Classifieds and Odd News Snippets
Classified ad rates and varied local notices appear, including sale offers for farms in Clayton county and Elgin, Iowa, and business inquiries. Other items report misadventures such as a dynamite cap injury, a faulty road line causing a crash, a check stub mix up, and a tire delivery mix up in Independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland
Clayton County
Marion
Elgin
Towa
Alfred Cook
Elkader
Chas. Wenger
Increased Welfare Funds to Confront Legislature
A September report is expected on welfare funds and salary measures. Some stopgap raises may occur pending legislative action as officials warn private sector pay creates staffing losses. September 22 is the deadline for minor party tickets for the November election. four parties may appear on the ballot and obstructions to certify exist. Ruby Miller of Des Moines eyes an independent bid with 1,000 signatures by Sept 22. Iowa may add reflectorized speed markers on curves next year, while 2,000 miles of no passing zones and 500 miles of centerlines are planned. State refunds on sales and use tax total over 500,000, with the highway commission likely exceeding 100,000. Since July 1, 1947, total refunds reach 369,716 for governmental units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive
Prohibition
Socialist
Socialist Labor
Communist Party
Miller
Ruby Miller
Des Moines
Iowa
The
Highway Commission
State Tax Commission
State Highway Commission
General Assembly
Tax Commission
Employment security fund shows large surplus in Iowa
The employment security commission reports a reserve of 80 million dollars in the unemployment insurance fund over ten years. Since 1937 Iowa employers paid out 27,637,659 to unemployed workers while contributing over 107 million dollars. Employers pay payroll taxes for firms with eight or more workers. employees contribute nothing. Employment has stayed high since the war, fueling the fund surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fond Suurplus
Employment Security Commission
Iowa
Iowa Butterfat Tax May Reach New High This Year
The Iowa dairy commission reports butterfat tax collections may exceed prior records. A one cent per pound levy in the first half of June and voluntary payments in the latter half promise a total near $140,000, short of last year’s $195,000 record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Dairy Industry Commission
Town Council Budget Hearing in Wadena Iowa 1948
The Town Council of Wadena Fayette County Iowa will meet September 6 1948 at 8 00 P M at the Town Hall. Taxpayers may speak for or against the proposed expenditures for the year starting April 1 1949. A detailed statement of receipts and disbursements will be available at the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadena
Fayette County
Iowa
Elgin Residents Visit Relatives and Farewell Plans
Elgin area residents including Mr and Mrs LeRoy Steele Richard and Mrs Carrie Steele spent Sunday with relatives at Decorah. Rev and Mrs G P Schroeder plan to leave for Minneapolis then California for months, joined by their son Ph M Gary Schroeder on 30 day leave. Farewell dinners were held by several friends. John Falk returned home from Postville hospital improving but homebound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy Steele
Richard
Carrie Steele
Decorah
Ray Stratton
Huron
West Union
G. P. Schroeder
Fremont Ave
Minneapolis
California
Ph. M
Gary Schroeder
Bethesda
West
Schroeders
John F. Miller
Clermont
Earl Kiples
Hugo Hackmanns
Abe Habegers
Louise Miller
John Falk
Postville Hospital
How to Get Along Rules for Everyday Conduct
Practical nineteenth century style guidance on character and manners. Emphasizes speaking softly, keeping promises, praising others, showing interest in people, smiling through trouble, keeping an open mind, avoiding gossip, protecting others feelings, ignoring insults, and diligent patient work for reward.
Radiant Heating Used in Four-Room Knoxville House
A new radiant heating method using an electrically heated ceiling operates in a four-room house in Knoxville Tennessee. The ceiling has a conductive rubber heating element sandwiched between two thin plastic layers. Each room’s entire ceiling warms, keeping all areas at a comfortable uniform temperature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
AROUND IOWA Upset and Odd Harvest Tales
AROUND IOWA reports a farmer George Frisbie was bumped into a ditch when a tractor loaded with baled straw swung left and escaped without stopping. The piece also notes Kenneth Robb of LeMars losing and later finding a watch works in a harvest machine. Snow ball plants bloom out of season near Little Rock, Iowa, while two young men encountered a lodging request at Mile Holl and farm in Inwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Frisbie
Kenneth Robb
LeMars
J. D. Kruse
Little Rock
Iowa
Mile Holland Farm
Inwood
Threshing Help Ends With Silence After Draftee Exit
A note describes workers who helped with threshing and ate a large supper for six men before leaving in a car the next day, offering no thanks. The fragment hints at a late night departure and unacknowledged labor without further details.
Typewriter counts words device patented
A new patent announces an attachment for typewriters that counts words as they are typed. Also described is Beawred Jelly, a seaweed jelly used in ice creams and confections, made from ammonium or sodium alginate with calcium alginate.
Distribution Cost Nearly a third of the goods from Rewe retail trades
A report notes that nearly one third of contributing goods originate from Rewe retail trades, highlighting distribution cost concerns and the role of major supplier networks in the chain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rewe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sds
George Metzger
Edwin Loftsgard
Dial
Wormix
Elgin Produce
CR. J. Mulford
Leland Capper
Herbert Blockhus
Edward Krueger
Ferry Larson
Echo Stationers
Maynard Lantz
Rex Mulford
Drife
Ferguson Tractors and Implements
B. & E. Tractor & Implement Co
Greenhouse
Lydia Martie
Elgin Echo
Jens Jenson
Clayton’ County
Marion Township
Alfred Jenson
2Nd St. SE
Oelwein
Wein
Joe Dinan
Hallmark
at _ Echo Stationers
C. J. Mulford
B. B
Postville
A. W. Swenson
R. BP. Strauch
Java
Marion Leff
Near
Maple Leaf
Rodney Lepham
Ilinois
Highway 218
Waverly
Julius Gorsch
Marengo
Chanen
Independence
Gee Co-op
National Farm Loam Association
Weather Federal Land Land System
West Union National Farm Loan Association
Darrell R. Pegsly
Sec’y-Treas
Noel Brockway
Keith Jennings
Jerome H. Sensing
Festina
Jimmy
MEWPA
John‘ Tillotson
Aimee
Postville Rendering CO
Waukon
Sunderman
Ae Monona
Mr. Zeigler
Osslan
West Union—Farmers
Elrader
Jack Sinclair
Cos Lansing
Butch
Rif
Jones
State Department
Schori
Kuster
Elgin ‘Cooperative
MAX Medberry
Mgr
Elgin, Iowa
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